How To Make Inset Shaker Cabinet Doors

This is pretty simple.

How to make inset shaker cabinet doors. In this video i show how to make shaker style cabinet doors with a router. I started off by taking all of the cabinet doors off and measuring them to see how big i needed to make the shaker cabinet doors. These are simple shaker style cabinet doors and are not very expensive to make but i warn you they are a little time consuming. I had to take a crash course on this matter even before i bought the wooden material.

Good for inset doors. It s a good idea to make your doors 1 8 in. Since the outside boards will be 1x3s actually 75x 2 5 i subtracted 5 inches from the. Figuring the length of the stiles is easy.

My shaker style cabinet doors needed to be 13 5 inches wide by 39 5 inches tall. Determine the cabinet size. How to build a shaker cabinet door step 1. But i still had to make shaker cabinet doors for the big cabinet that i built.

There are thousands of hinges out there. Make a list of the parts of your diy shaker cabinet doors before you begin. All you have to do is measure the opening of the cabinet and then add the desired overlap. I recently showed you all the beginning of my laundry room remodel.

They had to be concealed not showing. Most people opt for 1 2 inch. How to build shaker cabinet doors with a router how to inset the doors into a face frame for a high end look. Measuring for new shaker style cabinet doors.

The whole hinge part is craziness when you re a cabinet door building rookie. Additionally the border can be inset into the door frame or you can go with an overlay plan. A shaker cabinet door is basically a flat panel door that is framed with a raised border. For each one you ll need two stiles the vertical parts two rails the horizontal parts and one panel.

My key points for choosing the hinges i chose were these. These doors can also be made with a table saw. You can build your own from scratch or update a flat cabinet door that you already have. I ve built them for both my large built in cabinet the tv stand and they were the same style.

Your cabinet opening is 17 x 37 so you would want your shaker cabinet door to be 18 x 38. Extra tall so you can trim their ends after gluing.